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Herbs are plant food
substances. This is not a scientific definition it is a
practitioners definition. It is used by the people who make
recommendations about how to build better health naturally. If a
person uses herbs they are an herbal practitioner. Herbs have been
used since people began eating. They are not new and they were used
long before there were people who called themselves doctors or
scientists and they worked and they still do. A large amount of
information concerning what herbs to use for what was intuitive and
some trial and error as people sought out what helped them but what
we now have is an impressive list of plants that build better
health. There is a solution to every physical problem. It was meant
to be that way. It is not experimental. The great religions of the
world say much and give much information about the use of herbs. It
has been said each person has an herb. Since there are so many
physical differences between us, it stands to reason one herb may do
more for a certain person than another but do not despair. There is
an herb for you too. Often there are many herbs that are especially
helpful for you, just waiting, to be discovered. Luckily when eating
an herb if the wrong one is taken, nothing much happens and if you
do eat too much of it, body mechanisms usually reject it and you
leave it alone. Interestingly enough, an herb which tastes awful to
a person may indeed taste very agreeable to the same person when it
is needed. Part of the fun is discovering your herb or herbs and in
the process an acquaintance with herbs that help other people is
gained. One of the ways to tell what an herb will do is to taste a
little of it. This is much easier to do with a liquid herb than a
tablet or a capsule but in any case it should be done before you ask
anyone else to try an herb so it will at least be known if what the
label says is in the bottle, is in the bottle. Practice has shown
that even when two people have the same physical problem one may be
helped more than another. This is because people are different and
some folks are less ready to get well than others. Even when you
know exactly what they need, they still find some way to keep it
from working or a reason for not taking it. Never despair, that the
herbs don't work. This is a cooperative team effort. The team is
made up of the herb or herbs and they know what to do, the Creator
who gave them to us and we would expect the Creator to be willing
for anything good, the one who gave the advice, and the person using
the advice. Each member of the team must do their part.
Then it works like
the books says it does and that is what we can expect most of the
time. Help those who are good team players.
It is widely accepted
that foods do alter the structure and function of the human body.
Herbs are natural food medicines in that respect. In this sense, the
offerings in this book are intended as an addition to the diet for
that purpose. They can and do alter the structure and function of
the body favorably and if a dis-ease goes away then a person has
been benefited by a change of diet. The concept of letting the foods
we eat be our true medicines has been around for a long time, and
proclaimed by many prominent practitioners, and what better way to
do it. Regular drug medicines are concentrates, fractionates and
synthetics. Many times they are made from plants to begin with but
they are altered and the so called active principle is isolated and
removed and concentrated. This creates an unnatural condition where
man has tried to improve on nature by forcing the body to do
something or numbing it. This is not the way to build health
naturally. When you remove a substance from a plant in that manner
you no longer have the other parts of the plant that act as controls
to see to it that harmful side effects don't take place and that the
natural medicine is absorbed at just the right rate. To make matters
even worse, sometimes in the manufacture of drugs, portions of what
have been removed from the plant have been altered in strange ways.
Now we really get into harmful side effects. But the worst insult to
building better health naturally is when a synthetic drug is made,
usually from coal tar or petroleum, which may mimic nature or, which
the body has never seen before and runs uncontrolled in the body,
then it is anybody's guess what will happen. Then take the case of a
person taking more than one drug at a time and these drugs
interacting. A person literally becomes a walking experiment. This
would be harmful to a well person, but think what it could do to a
sick person.
An example of this
would be where a person has headaches all the time because there is
gas in the large intestine all the time. Powerful drugs are taken to
relieve the pain and an ulcer of the stomach is created. Now the
person still gets headaches and has the torture of an ulcer as well.
The body was forced to stop feeling a headache at times despite the
gas and a side effect occurred. Now an ulcer drug must be taken and
the ulcer is not cured but the body does not feel the ulcer and all
of a sudden there is a problem where the man can no longer perform
as a man. Now we need a tranquilizer and it is taken. The
tranquilizer keeps the nerves from being as upset but causes
nightmares and the original headache is such a problem it is decided
to cut the nerve in the brain which senses pain. Now the brain can
not monitor and control the body as well, and all manner of drugs
are needed to force the body to work. Each of these drugs can have
its own side effects and interact with the others to cause more side
effects. You can imagine the rest of the story. Wouldn't it have
been easier to address the original problem and put some Ginger in
the diet to aid the digestion and rapidly blow the gas out of the
body through the nearest most appropriate exit? Then the headache
would have gone away. We could have repeated adding ginger to the
diet, until the digestive problem was finally resolved and
the headache no
longer occurred.
Please accept this
offer to build better health naturally. The information in this Book
was written because you are respected and appreciated, and loved.
Someone does care about you and would like to see you well. Herbs
are your birthright. Discover yours.
(Excerpted from the
copyrighted work HERBAL EXTRACTS, BUILD BETTER HEALTH WITH LIQUID
HERBS book). Dr. A. B. Howard
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